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Global Category Director
International Flavors & Fragrances
Hilversum, , Netherlands
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Global Category Director - Naturals
The Global Category Director Naturals will be responsible for creating overarching sourcing strategies for fragrances and flavors natural raw materials and supporting business opportunities and differentiation. He will lead his team to support the business units, their key commecial drivers to further expand sales into naturals markets, Business Development, and C&A stakeholders. This role will drive and implement sustainable supply of third party raw materials, bring innovation to build on naturals platforms, improve supply chain and product portfolio efficiencies, and create a competitive advantage for IFF in the naturals space.
Major Accountabilities:
• Establish global sourcing vision and long-term strategies for key fragrance naturals, cosmetic ingredients, and innovative flavor naturals (Naturals & Beyond) for future flavor platforms and programs. Drive strategic thinking and establish naturals category management best practices for key categories (e.g. Citrus, Vanilla, Mint, Spice).
• Identify sourcing requirements to align with business needs for natural platform/programs and delivering significant value through new initiatives and supplier collaborations/partnerships.
• Ensure execution of the sustainable sourcing of naturals and supporting their communities. Drive differentiating sustainability programs for IFF.
• Communicate proactively with procurement and business leaders on naturals cost trend changes, especially for upward market pricing to support pass-through customer price increases, and impact on financial KPI's
• Identify and develop key partnerships with strategic suppliers of naturals. Drive a process to evaluate and leverage the value of supplier relationships and performance.
• Coach and develop the buyers of naturals. Develop, engage and retain talent.
• Publish sourcing strategies for key natural raw materials driving the flavors and fragrance BU costs .
• Promote naturals supply chain best practices (farmer-customer value chain) and build effective business relationships to bridge communication and organizational gaps.
Required Skills:
• Minimum 4 years undergraduate degree, preferably in business, economics, sciences or engineering
• Preferred MBA, Advanced degree in sciences or engineering
• Industry experience in naturals relevant to flavors and fragrances with demonstrated ability to work with cross functional and business teams in matrix organizations
• Proven experience setting comprehensive sourcing strategies. Proven experience in procurement category management role.
• Major supplier contract negotiations and tracking of cost elements and modeling raw material pricing
• Knowledge of supply chain relevant to key naturals and their traceability, their derivatives and market applications
• Fluent in English, other languages considered an advantage
Required Experience:
• Minimum 10-15 years in Procurement or sourcing with at least 10 years in a global leadership capacity in the area of naturals
• Sourcing from international markets and track record of initiating naturals initiatives with compelling outcomes
• Thorough knowledge of naturals (planting, harvesting, growth conditions….etc across globe)
• Demonstrated to be a valued partner to the business and outside suppliers with high level of trust and integrity
• 5-10 years of experience buying naturals for leading companies with natural product base such as Consumer Product Goods companies or natural food/cosmetic ingredients.